It's February 1st, and we at Justia are happy to report that in January members of our Onward and Facebook communities not only stopped by to visit us, you also liked us, and sometimes, you really, really liked us. Our heavy hitter in January on the Onward Blog in terms…
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On Monday, Gabriel Saldana offered some social media privacy tips for stalking victims. His advice about quitting Facebook is on the mark, and not just for people victimized by stalkers. While Facebook is a popular gateway into a virtual world of friends, status updates, and likes, it may also serve…
Comedians, satirists, and Fake Steve’s everywhere, take note: under California's new anti-Internet impersonation law, you want to make sure that you show your intent to tickle your reader's funny bones on the Web. That's because under California Penal Code Section 528.5, someone who "knowingly and without consent" uses the Internet to "credibly impersonate[] another…
Happy New Year to all our Justia friends! As Courtney wrote in her year-end review, one of the big trends of 2010 was the emergence of social media and its integration into the work of legal professionals. While I'm sure many of our readers may already have a blog, a…
British authorities arrested Wiikileaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange on Tuesday based upon a Swedish warrant charging him with sexually assaulting two women there over the summer. Assange's arrest, along with decisions by technology companies, finance companies, and banks to distance themselves from the document-leaking web site he founded, have…
Free Law - Justia truly believes that the law belongs to the people. It was created for us, by us. That is why we are thankful for Law.Gov, the brainchild of passionate Government open source advocate Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org. Google - We are thankful for Google and its continued…
If you're a regular reader of this blog or follow Justia on Facebook or Twitter, you may have noticed that in October we really picked up the pace on the Justia Law, Technology & Legal Marketing Blog. In the past, we used the blog to make announcements, cheer on fellow…
It’s election day and all of us here at Justia hope you get out and vote! Given that we’ll have a new Congress at the beginning of the year, we’d like to point you to some iPhone apps you can download to keep informed on what’s going on in the…
Sometimes people mistake Justia's mission, "To advance the availability of legal resources for the benefit of society," as being only about advancing the availability of legal resources for lawyers, but society is much larger then the legal community. This week's App of the week is free for the iPhone and iPad…
OnGuard Online, a website by the Federal Trade Commission, urges people to exercise discretion when using social networking sites. While their advice is targeted towards parents of young children, it applies equally to people of all ages. In general, the FTC cautions people to only post information to social networking…